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"GMA News and Public Affairs’ comprehensive live coverage of President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III’s fourth State of the Nation Address (SONA) topped overall television household ratings on July 22 (based on overnight data), according to the industry’s leading ratings service provider, Nielsen TV Audience Measurement.

"GMA Network’s SONA coverage used new media platforms like YouScoop, Twitter, and Facebook to measure the public pulse, encouraging Filipinos from all walks of life to post questions and give feedback on the day’s highlights.

"The Network also mounted a GMA News Hangout, an online discussion and post-SONA analysis hosted by GMA News Online Editor-in-Chief Howie Severino and attended by expert panelists. The 45-minute discussion reviewed the Aquino administration’s performance and predicted the direction it would take in the next three years.

"Live reports in and out of Congress were also heard on GMA’s flagship AM radio station dzBB 594 kHz Super Radyo. Listeners also sent in their views and comments via the station’s Twitter accounts @dzbb and @dzbbGMA, and were read on the air."

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